Akiyama Masanosuke

Akiyama Masanosuke

Akiyama Masanosuke ( Japanese. 秋山 雅 之 介 ; * March 9, 1866 ^greg. / January 23. Keiō 2 ^contemporary in Hiroshima ; † April 11, 1937 ) was a Japanese diplomat and lawyer .

Life

Akiyama Masanosuke was the son of Akiyama Shuichi, a simple soldier in the principality / - han Hiroshima ( since 1871 prefecture / - ken Hiroshima) of the Asano clan . He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1890 . After assignments at the embassies in the United Kingdom and in the Russian Empire , he worked as a lecturer at the Tokyo Technical School (Tōkyō semmon gakkō)and the Tokyo School of Japanese and French Law. In 1896 he visited the newly founded Republic of Hawaii as a special negotiator on the protected cruiser Naniwa , after numerous immigrant Japanese workers had previously been rejected. He stated that rejecting Japanese guest workers would violate the 1871 Hawaiian-Japanese Treaty. He advocated further investigation into the matter and indicated that his investigation could lead to claims for compensation. In 1897 he was appointed counselor in the Foreign Ministry.

At the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 Akiyama Masanosuke was council (sanjikan) in the Ministry of the Army (Rikugun-shō) and in the legislative office of the cabinet (Naikaku hōseikyoku) , for which he took part in the revision of the First Geneva Convention of the International Red Cross in 1906 . For his services he was awarded both the Order of the Rising Sun (Kyokujitsushō) and the Military Medal of Honor (jugun kisho) in 1906 . He was then a councilor in the office of the President General of Korea Terauchi Masatake , who became the first Governor General of Korea in August 1910 . On January 8, 1912 he was also awarded the Medal of Victory (Senshō kinshō) . Most recently he served as the head of the Bureau of Legal Affairs in the Office of the Governor General of Korea between 1916 and 1917, and in 1917 he became civil commissioner and governor of the Japanese colony of Qingdao .

After the return of Qingdao to the Republic of China on December 10, 1922, Akiyama Masanosuke took over the office of Chancellor of Hōsei University , whose rector he was between 1931 and 1934. In 1933 he also became president of this university for law and political science, founded in 1880, and was also dean of the Imperial College for Women, from which the Sagami Women's University emerged in 1949.

Background literature

• Hui-Min Lo (editor): The Correspondence of GE Morrison 1912-1920 , pp. 641 et al., Cambridge University Press, 1978, ISBN 0-5212-1561-7
• Marc Andre Matten: Imagining a Postnational World: Hegemony and Space in Modern China , p. 95, BRILL, 2016, ISBN 9-0043-2715-0
• Nianshen Song: Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919 , p. 158, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 1-3168-0555-7

Web links

• Entry in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures at the National Diet Library (English, Japanese )
• Entry in prabook.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert W. Merry: President McKinley: Architect of the American Century , p. 207, Simon and Schuster, 2017, ISBN 1-4516-2544-8

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Akiyama is the family name, Masanosuke the first name.